As an avid wine lover and obsessive Game of Thrones fan, no one was more excited than I was at the announcement back in March that two of my favorite things were coming together. Vintage Wine Estates and renowned winemaker Bob Cabral have crafted three options to suit a variety of tastes: a Chardonnay, a […]
Continue reading →Arriving in stores, your front porch, or your very best dreams is the newest beer in the Game of Thrones series from Brewery Ommegang and HBO Global Licensing: Bend the Knee Golden Ale. “Pils malt, flaked oats, Saaz, Bravo, and Styrian Golding hops all work together to create a beer that’s equally as complex and […]
Continue reading →If you thought, as I might have a week ago, that material as expansive and as grim as Game of Thrones could never inspire a hilarious yet coherent musical, well … you’d be wrong. No, Thrones! The Musical Parody isn’t the Coldplay musical that was teased on Red Nosed Day two years ago, but it’s a […]
Continue reading →Game of Thrones’ Ommegang brews have long serenaded me with their siren song, the deep, gleaming bottles standing in rows of store shelves like delicious sentinels, waiting for me to rescue them from their retail prisons. Therefore it was with great jubilation that I tried the Valar Dohaeris/Valar Morghulis Gift Pack that was released this […]
Continue reading →Hello, fair readers of Watchers on the Wall! This is your final roundup of videos for the season. What do our Unsullied think? Book readers? What does the spectrum of viewpoints include? How about speculation for next season? Since none of us basically knows what’s going to happen, I for one am ready to board the […]
Continue reading →What can you expect in the Game of Thrones Season 6 Finale? Vengeance. Justice. Fire and Blood. All that and more. Spoiler Note: This post is for those who have read the A Song of Ice and Fire series. The post and the comments section will contain spoilers from the novels! Because no, we are […]
Continue reading →Here’s your weekly Brush-Up video of last week’s Game of Thrones episode entitled “Battle of the Bastards.” This was an amazing episode 9, which is what we have come to expect from the show. Come explore it one more time with me before the last episode of Season 6 airs. This video should be safe […]
Continue reading →We made it! Episode 9! Hooray! Anecdotally, the bar I watch the show at regularly erupted in cheering and yells and this time it wasn’t just me. Were our video people as excited about this episode as us plebeians? Let’s see! So many thumbnails in which Jon is adorable despite his imprisoned mane. Ozzy Man, […]
Continue reading →War is hell and tonight in “Battle of the Bastards,” from Meereen to Winterfell, Game of Thrones plunged us all into the thick of it. Spoiler Note: This post is for those who have read the A Song of Ice and Fire series. The post and the comments section will contain spoilers from the novels! Because […]
Continue reading →Here’s your weekly Brush-Up video of last week’s Game of Thrones episode entitled “No One.” There were lots of ups and downs in this episode so join me in exploring it. This video should be safe enough for the Unsullied because the spoilers and speculation are at the very end of the video with plenty […]
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